SECTION ONE: SEEDS OF THE POSSIBLE * Poem: Seamus Heaney- From The Cure at Troy * 1. Diane Ackerman A Slender Thread * 2. Jonathan Kozol, Ordinary Resurrections * 3. Marian Wright Edelman, Standing for Children * 4. Danusha Goska, Political Paralysis SECTION TWO: DARK BEFORE THE DAWN * Poem: WH Auden-From September 1, 1939 * 5. Howard Zinn, The Optimism of Uncertainty * 6. Nelson Mandela, The Dark Years * 7. Vaclav Havel, Orientation of the Heart SECTION THREE: EVERYDAY GRACE * Poems: Wendell Berry-The Peace of Wild Things * Antonio Machado-Last Night As I Was Sleeping * 8. Scott Sanders, Mountain Music * 9. Rabbi Arthur Waskow, The Sukkah of Shalom * 10. Rose Marie Berger, Getting our Gaze Back * 11. Henri Nouwen, Fragile and Hidden * 12. Parker Palmer, There is a Season SECTION FOUR: THE FLIGHT OF OUR DREAMS * Poem: Eduardo Galeano: Celebration of the Human Voice * 13. Pablo Neruda-Childhood and Poetry * 14. Susan Griffin, To Love the Marigold * 15. John Lewis, Walking With the Wind * 16. Rosemarie Freeney Harding, Freedom Songs * 17. Toni Mirosevich, Rough Translation * 18. Walter Wink, Jesus and Alinsky * 19. Vern Huffman, Stories from the Cha Cha Cha * 20. Sherman Alexie, Do Not Go Gentle * 21. Tony Kushner: Despair is a Lie we Tell Ourselves SECTION FIVE: COURAGE IS CONTAGIOUS * Poem: Marge Piercy-To Be of Use 22. Victoria Safford, The Small Work in the Great Work 23. Sister Rosalie Bertell, In What Do I Place My Trust? * 24 Paxus Calta-Star, Not Deterred * 25. Jim Hightower, Rebellion is What Built America * 26. Jim Wallis, Faith Works. * 27. Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Life Story SECTION SIX: THE GLOBAL STAGE * Poem: Martin Espada-Imagine the Angels of Bread * Section Six Introduction * 28. Arundhati Roy, Come September * 29. Ariel Dorfman, The Black Hole * 30. Kenneth Roth, Hope For Human Rights * 31. Mark Hertsgaard, The Green Dream * 32. Bill McKibben, Curitiba SECTION SEVEN: RADICAL DIGNITY * Poem: Adrienne Rich: From Natural Resources * Poem: Jalaluddin Rumi: How Have You Spent Your Life? * 33. Martin Luther King: Letter from Birmingham Jail * 34. Paul Loeb, The Real Rosa Parks * 35. Cornel West Prisoners of Hope * 36. Carla Seaquist: Behemoth in a Bathrobe * 37. Billy Wayne Sinclair, A Life in the Balance * 38. Peter Ackerman & Jack DuVall, A Force More Powerful SECTION EIGHT: LETTING GO OF HOPE * Poem: Elizabeth Barrette-Origami Emotion * Poem: Sam Hamill-From New York Poem * 39. Mary-Wynne Ashford, Staying the Course * 40. Joanna Macy, The Elm Tree Dance * 41. Nadezhda Mandelstam: Excerpt from Hoping Against Hope * 42. KC Golden, The Inevitability Trap * 43. Sonya Vetra Tinsley, as told to Paul Loeb, You Have to Pick Your Team * 44. Margaret Wheatley: From Hope to Hopelessness SECTION NINE: ONLY JUSTICE CAN STOP A CURSE * Poem: Maya Angelou- Still I Rise * 45. Alice Walker, Only Justice Can Stop a Curse * 46. Terry Tempest Williams: The Clan of One-Breasted Women * 47. Starhawk, Next Year in Mas'Ha * 48. Amos Oz, The Gruntwork of Peace * 49. Desmond Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness * 50. A Timeline of Hope, by Glen Gersmehl
